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Outdoor street procession on a paved walkway beside a tree-lined road. A man in a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl with a gold-edged border and a gold floral crown walks at centre, wearing a long rudraksha mala and a gold pendant, with a red forehead mark. Behind him a man holds a yellow umbrella over the group. Other men in white dhotis with gold borders and rudraksha malas walk alongside, one in orange holding white flowers. A woman in a white sari with a red-green border carries a gold kalasha, and devotees follow in the background. The scene reads as a ritual procession, and a lattice tower stands at left.

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